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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3882, 11 August 1891, Page 2

We notice from the N.Z. Gazette that Professor Hemy Barraclough hasappJied for the letters patent for his now celebrated corn cure. We understand the American Minstrels will appear in the Theatre Royal, Masterton, for three nights next week. We understand the Directors of the Grey town Dairy Factory Co., Limited, have leated the factoiy, with all plant and machinery, a'a going concern, to Messrs F. B, Wood and E. Bonsey, for a terra of years, with the right to uie the Company's brand. Mr. Wood has ar.ted as Secretary to the Company since it first started in 1882, and Mr. Bonsey lias been manager for the past three years. We trust that with the benefit of their joint and past experience, they w"' succeed ' i the: • plucky undertak" ig-

A couple of inebriates, who appeared I in the R.M. Court, Mastertcn, this morning, were dealt with in the usual summary manner. A sample of tbe 1000 bushels of prime seed wheat, advertised for sale in another column, can be seen at this office, Eilmore Gaol, Victoria, has been turned into a butter factory, and Bendigo old post office into a clothing manufactory. The Knights of Labour Intend opening assemblies in each of the towr.s in the Lower Valley. Mr, Thos A, Cox, at one time a school teacher at Greytown, has been commit* ted to Mount View Asylum. Much learning hath made him mad 1 A Wanganui playwright has, according to the Sydney Morninp Herald, sent his bantling to Madame Sara Bernhardt for an expression of opinion thereon.

A number of men from South, who have obtained employment as bushfallen in this district through the agency of the Bureiu of Industry, arrived in Masterton last night. Mr D. M. Brookes, the * ell-known manufacturer of lime at Mauriceville, has an important announcement in our advertising columns. The recent floods in Victoria have caused damnga to the railways to the extent of £25,100, The Australan cruisers have arrived at Thursday Island, but are awaiting the arrival of the Orlando before pro* ceeding South. Messrs Lowes and lorns remind our readers of cheir fortnightly stock sale to-morrow. The catalogue comprises 350 fat turnip .fed wethers, 50 fat ewes, 130 hopgeti,.B. pigs, 1. bull and other stock.

The Knights of Labour here have resolved to carry out a plan promoted by Mr (J. Hii-sch, of establishing evening classes for primary and secondary education. Arrangements to open shortly under 'le direction ot the former are now being completed by a committee. If the new Italian opera season proves a succeis in Australia, Madame Slmonaen has decided to pay New Zealand a visit next autumn. A peculiar fatal accident occurred at Drumborg, near Hey wood. Two boys were outrabbitiug, and while one was chopping out a hollow log the other, twelve years of age, put his heal in the cavity of the log to see the rabbits. The axe came down on his head, splitting bis skull, and he died shortly after

The Lyttelton Times says it is glad to see that the Mask rton Kniehts of Labour do not mean to sacrifice the solid benefits the industrial classes are likely to gain from the Liberal policy as a whole, to any abstract theory with regard to the beauties of Henry George's Single Tax. At Napier this week a youth got mulct in £4 8b 9d for striking a Chinaman—in default 21 dtys' imprisonment.

An Oamara constable bowled out an oat stealer by putting small scraps of paper, with his own writing on, in a bag of oats, and finding these scraps among oats on the thief's premises. A veiy ridiculous lunatic has been sent to Sunnyside from Ashburton. He imagined himself crossed in lore, and that the lady had taken away the last vestiges of his humanity by means of an electric machine. He threw on" ah his cloches and took to the paddocks, and when chpsed led the way straight across the country. By the time he was caupht his feet were badly cut by stones, and his legs full of gorse prickles. A football match was played at Fahiatua on Saturday between the "Old Statrers" and the Football Club, resulting in a win for the latter by one point to nothing. In the evening a dinner was provided by Mr Sallivan, of the Fahiatua Hotel, in honor of the event. A concert ( was afterwards, held in the .halh__. A road contractor named Patterson met with a terrible death at Bruthen on Saturday, while he was engaged blasting rocks. The dynamite having got damp, Patterson commeneed to dry it over a fire in a small can. While he was blowing the fire with a bellows the whole charge was ignited by a spark, and the contents were lodged in his stomach, frightfully mutilating him. He ex* pired two hours afterwards.

While the operetta Trial by Jury was being performed at Martinborough, on Friday night, a bush-whacker remarked, as he looked at the jury, "Iwonlerif the Jury that tried Coleman Phillips in Wellington were anything like chat crowd ?" "Well," said his companion "I don't think so ; this crowd has a down on the defendant and shake their lists at him ; but most of the Wellington let wanted to lee Coleman off." "Very likely the defendant forgot to shout for him before he went in," said the bushwhacker.

A new phase of the unemployed difficulty has presented itself at Eketahuna. Three of a party of twenty-one unemployed who recently arrived at that place from the South Island were taken on by a bush contractor named Johnstou. Being without axes, tents, and the other appliances so necessary to bush life, the men were taken by the contractor into a stoie and there instructed to get what they required at his expense. Quite naturally they did so, but they knew a game worth two of hard work. A o sooner had they arrived at their bush campand viewed the landscape o'er than they put together the goods and chattels gratuitously furnished by the contractor and made for freßh fields and pastures new. The contractor of course became indignant and went in pursuit, bat all his efforts to recover the goods were m vain. Information was then given to the police, and the men were arrested as they were entering the township of Pahiatua. They were charged at Eketahuna on Monday with obtaining goods by means of false pretences, and were each sentenced to a fortnight's hard labour in the Wellington Tenace Gaol.

Sporting- men would find It greatly to their advantage by orrespondinp with A- 1. Jacobs, the professional Taxidermist from London. Birds, fish, animals and reptiles preserved and mounted in the h'ghest style. Every description of skins preserved or tanned and made into rugs, etc. Work done in all Its branches ac lowest rates. Correspon dence in all parts of the globe. £>o years' experience. All work guaranteed. Highest price given, or work done in exchange for huias, crews, New Zealand quail, and other birds. N. Z. birds wanted in any quantity. Orders left at Mr. Williams,' tobacconist, Masterton or Mr. Gate's, hairdresser, Cartorton wjllbe attended to, Advt. [ Secure without delay some of these bargains in White Calicoes,all at genuine Sale prices, 12yds tor Is lid, 12yds fre 3s 6d, 12yds for 4s 6d, 12yds for 5s 6d, 'l2 yards for 6s 6d. Grey Calicoes, 12yds for Is, 12yds for 2s lid, 12yds for 3s lid, 12yds for 4s lid. 12yds for 5s lid. These are all genuine bargains at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wellington.

Secure without delay some 6? these bargains in fjj.hesftngs. Single bed Sheetings syds for 2s sd.Jjfyds for 8s 6d. Double bed Sheetings syds for tfs Jld, '-*• for 4« Od, Crimean Sheetings 4yds 4yds for Seed, 4yds lor £ lld ' .™ ese f are all remarkably cheap at the ba»» ? Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wellington. Secure without delay some of these bargains in Welsh Flannels, 6yds for 3s lid, 6yds for 5s 6d, 6yds for 6s lid, 6yds fur 7s lid, 6yds for 8s lid. Scarlet Flannels6yds for 2s lid, 6yds for 3s lid 6yds for 5s 6d, 6\ds for 7s lid, 6yds for Hi lid. All sterling value, beßt makers and at sale prices. Ihe Sale ot Surplus Winter Stock.Te Aro House, Wellington. j Secure some of these bargaiua without ' delay, 12yds Stout Brown Holland for 2s lid, 12yds Strong Brown Holland for 4s lid, 12yds Twilled 8elic : » for Is 6d. 12yd* Grey Cotton Luatres tor 2s lid. 12yds Grey Cotton Lustre for 3s lid at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock,Te Aro House, Wellington.

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their sale for Wednesday next 80 ewe hoggets and 1 bull, An entertainment is to be given at Greytown to-morrow (Wednesday) evening by Mons. Leon-Driver. Onr Greytown friends may anticipate a rare musical treat. " Rolf Boldrewood, " the celebrated Australian author whose books have attracted considerable attention of. late, is, we gather from a contemporary, dead. '* flolf Boldrewood " was only a nom deplume for Mr. F. A. Browne, for many years of Police Magistrate at Al« bury, N.S.W.

It will soon be nice and wicked to be a true patriot in New Zealand (says an exchange)beeause the more a man drinks oi gambles at horse racing, the greater will be the revenue of the country, and the more a roan adds to that the better citizen is he. The natural corollary to this is that the Government should refrain from taxing liquor and opium and horse racing and should, instead, put a tax upon churches and education, and books, and the necessaries of life generally, beeause the revenue thus derived would be nice and holy, and would not offend the tender susceptibilities of the stupid person who indited the lunacy referred to. Foutball is a very invigorating game »s played in Palmerston North. The Standard says that daring the progress of a game there U*t Saturday one man became so excited that he fell down in a fit and had to be conveyed home in a cab. Another, who was encroaching on the line, received a severe kick on the shin, and at once struggled away to a place of safety. A lady who was starding in close proximity to the latter, was also knocked down, and it was thought at first she was severely injured, but after a few minutes recovered sufficiently to be able to walk home.